Canons Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons…
— Samuel Alito
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate.…
— Charles Hodge
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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or…
— Arthur E Waite
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Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays…
— Darrel Ray
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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the…
— Leslie Fiedler
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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
— Sydney Smith
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The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity…
— Joseph Campbell
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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
— Oscar Wilde
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What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your…
— Mina Loy
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Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the…
— Mary Hunter Austin
Who Wrote These Canons Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Canons Quotes as follows: